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Film and Television Career

Chris Noth is an American actor who has a net worth of $12 million. Chris Noth is probably most famous for playing Big on HBO's "Sex and the City" (1998–2004), Detective Mike Logan on NBC's "Law & Order" (1990–1995) and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2005–2008), and Peter Florrick on CBS's "The Good Wife" (2009–2016). Chris has more than 70 acting credits to his name, including the films "Cast Away" (2000), "Mr. 3000" (2004), "Sex and the City" (2008), "Sex and the City 2" (2010), and "Lovelace" (2013). He has also appeared on the television series "Tyrant" (2016), "Manhunt: Unabomber" (2017), and "Gone" (2017–2018), and he began playing William Bishop on "The Equalizer" in 2021.

Jeanne was tempted to send Chris to an all-boys boarding school after he damaged a neighbor's car while taking it for a joyride, but he talked her into sending him to The Barlow School, a co-ed school in Dutchess County, New York, instead. After he graduated, Noth moved to Brooklyn and found a job at a school for the mentally disabled. He later enrolled at Vermont's Marlboro College and joined a repertory theatre company, first appearing onstage in "She Stoops To Conquer." Chris moved back to New York after graduation and studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, but since the school had a rule against students working in the theatre, he was expelled after "The New York Times" published a photo of Noth acting in a Manhattan Theatre Club production. Chris later auditioned for Yale University and Juilliard, and both schools accepted him. He decided to attend the Yale School of Drama, who gave him a scholarship, and he earned his MFA in 1985.

In 2000, Noth co-starred withTom HanksandHelen Huntin "Cast Away," and he guest-starred on "Crossing Jordan" in 2001. He played a romance expert in 2005's "The Perfect Man" and portrayed disgraced politician Peter Florrick in 101 episodes of "The Good Wife" from 2009 to 2016. Around this time, Chris also appeared in the films "My One and Only" (2009), "3,2,1… Frankie Go Boom" (2012), and "After the Ball" (2015) and voiced Lex Luthor in "Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths" (2010). In 2012, he narrated the documentary series "I Didn't Do It" and portrayedJ. P. Morganin the miniseries "Titanic: Blood and Steel," and he played General William Cogswell on 10 episodes of the FX series "Tyrant" in 2016. In 2017, Noth narrated "Sharks and the City: New York" for the Discovery Channel's Shark Week and portrayed FBI agent Don Ackermann on "Manhunt: Unabomber," which also aired on Discovery. He played an FBI agent again on the procedural drama "Gone" from 2017 to 2018, and he guest-starred on "Doctor Who" in 2018 and 2021. In 2020, Chris appeared in the film "A New York Christmas Wedding," and he began playing ex–CIA director William Bishop on the CBS crime drama "The Equalizer" in 2021.

While Noth was a student at the Yale School of Drama, he appeared in at least 25 plays, including Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths" and Wole Soyinka's "A Play of Giants." He signed with an agent by his third year at the school, and after graduating, Chris played the title role in "Hamlet" at Connecticut's American Shakespeare Festival. He later appeared in plays at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC, and he first appeared on Broadway in a 2000 production ofGore Vidal's"The Best Man," which earned a Tony nomination for Best Revival of a Play. In 2005, Noth appeared in Vidal's "On the March to the Sea" andDavid Mamet's"American Buffalo," and in 2009, he co-starred withChris PineinBeau Willimon's"Farragut North" at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse. He returned to Broadway for the 2011 revival of "That Championship Season," and in 2019, he appeared in Florian Zeller's "The Mother," an Off-Broadway production co-starringIsabelle Huppert.

Chris Noth was born Christopher David Noth on November 13, 1954, in Madison, Wisconsin. His mother, Jeanne Parr, was a news reporter and host of a CBS talk show, and his father, Charles Noth, was an insurance agent, the vice president of a marketing company, and a World War II naval aviator. Chris grew up in Connecticut with older brothers Michael and Charles, and sadly, the boys lost their father in 1966 when he died in a tragic car accident. Noth's mother later remarried, and the family relocated to southern California in 1969, then moved to New York a few years later. Chris committed vandalism and smoked marijuana during his youth, and at age 15, he began taking LSD with his friends, which resulted in Noth once entering a Newport Beach home and jumping naked off the homeowner's pier.

Chris made his big screen debut in 1981 with small roles in "Cutter's Way" and "Waitress!," and he appeared in "Smithereens" in 1982. He began appearing on television in 1986, guest-starring on "Hill Street Blues" and landing a string of made-for-TV movies, such as "Killer in the Mirror" (1986), "At Mother's Request" (1987), and "I'll Take Manhattan" (1987). In 1990, Noth landed his big break onDick Wolf's"Law & Order," and he would go on to play Mike Logan in 111 episodes of the series as well as 36 episodes of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and a 1995 episode of "Homicide: Life on the Street." While starring on "Law & Order," he appeared in the films "Boyz n the Hood" (1991) and "Naked in New York" (1993) and the TV movies "In the Shadows, Someone's Watching" (1993) and "Where Are My Children?" (1994). Throughout the 1990s, Chris also appeared in the films "The Broken Giant" (1998) and "The Confessions" (1999) and guest-starred on "Touched by an Angel" (1997).

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